Upper body injury to Wingels will keep him out at least through NHL All-Star break, McLellan says

Rushing to get things ready for the print edition before catching a flight to Vancouver, but here’s a cut-and-paste of the story just filed for our online edition on the injury to Tommmy Wingels.

By David Pollak
dpollak@mercurynews.com

Add another Shark to the injured list as rookie Tommy Wingels won’t be in the lineup Saturday when the Sharks face the Vancouver Canucks.

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Coach Todd McLellan said Wingels suffered an upper body injury in Thursday night’s 4-1 loss to the Ottawa Senators and will miss at least the next three games before the NHL All-Star break.

The injury occurred when Wingels, teammate Joe Pavelski and Ottawa forward Chris Neill all came togther along the side boards near the San Jose bench at 4:26 of the third period.

“It looked pretty innocent,” McLellan said.

Wingels was elevated to San Jose’s top line with two of the team’s top six forwards — Ryane Clowe and Marty Havlat — already on injured reserve.

In practice today, Andrew Desjardins skated in what had been Wingels slot alongside Pavelski and Joe Thornton. McLellan said that could be how things line up against the Canucks, but “we’ll try and audition a bunch of people.”

David Pollak

David Pollak has been following the NHL forever and at the Mercury News as an editor or reporter since 1987. For almost a decade he wrote about the Sharks as the paper's Fan in the Stands before joining the sports department in 2001. He became the Sharks beat writer before the 2007-08 season and began this blog at that time. You can also follow him on Twitter at @PollakOnSharks.

It was obvious to me in the game vs the Sens that Andrew Murray was a missing piece. I wonder the Sharks record is without Andrew Murray in the line up.

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@ gp

i WAS SURPRISE THATT MURRAY WAS OUT, AND COLIN WHITE WAS INVISIBLE, BRING BACK DEMERS

Martin Brody

Johnny San Jose (5’9″, 170 lbs. + white belt) – Here are a few facts for you to digest:

PK % – our pk has been playing a little better lately, the fact is our pk % has been near the bottom of the league (25th – 30th) for the last two plus years (regular seasons and playoffs). We lost game 4 at home and the series to the Canucks because we couldn’t score on our pp and we couldn’t kill penalties. That’s no knee jerk reaction as you said…more than 2 years!!!

Prospects and draft picks – another fact, our organization cupboards have been pretty bare for the last three plus years. DW traded our first round draft pick, plus our best prospect Charlie Coyle, and Setoguchi for Brent Burns. In the salary cap world, teams need to have a steady supply of good young players with entry level contracts to have continue success. This trade will haunt us for years to come!!!

Violence in the arena – fact the young lady with a brain tumor who was attacked by a fat woman behind her seat. Another life long Sharks season ticket holder who is a Canucks fan with his young son was attacked at the urinal and arena concourse areas.

Was that too much facts for you? Go over your head, maybe?

LOL 😆

Martin Brody

Johnny San Jose,

Think of it this way…you being 5’9″ 170 lbs + white belt likes to talk trash…I am bigger than you by a little and I can’t stand you acting like a weasel…so I put my glove in your face…and you bite my finger!!! You tell the media, like David Pollack, afterward that I was trying to pull your teeth out.

Best Sharks team EVER! You know the funny thing is how Sharks fan hate the Canucks and see them as one of their biggest rivals. However, the feeling is not mutual.

Johnny San Jose

Martin Brody (6’4″, 225 lbs. + black belt) —

The PK has been very solid for a while now. It got off to a bad start but they’ve recovered as of late so I don’t see your argument, there.

Prospects and draft picks — I don’t disagree with you on some of those points. The picks DW has gotten were low in the first round due to the success the team has had. In my opinion, DW thought Burns would be a key piece in a Stanley Cup run this year. I’m not sure why you’re so hung up on Charlie Coyle. When he does something in the NHL, I’ll be impressed but I haven’t seen anything yet so it’s too early to comment. You may be right but why will this trade “haunt us for years”? You have no idea what’ll happen with the careers of all those involved in that trade.

Violence in the arena — You’re calling out two or three idiots in a crowd of 17,565? You’re the one that wanted to meet up with me and fight last year, remember? And you’re against violence? What about your beloved Canucks and what their fans did to opposing fans/their city?

Snow Shovel

You got him there Johnny!!! 🙂

Snow Shovel

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So flopping and flapping
Our way onto the ice,
Is what we do the best
To give the game some spice!

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